by Carlos Sánchez Silva (1998)
"Archival study builds on the work of William Taylor and others to indicate how Oaxaca fared in the transition from colony to republic. Emphasizes that rebellion was only one form of resistance as indigenous groups sought to keep others from their communities"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
João Fragoso e Manolo Florentino
"Explores continuity of skewed income distribution in Brazil by examining consistent reproduction of a colonial economy defined here as the growing enrichment of the mercantile elite and the constant pauperization of the free poor"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Jorge Meléndez Sánchez
Este libro presenta la cultura regional destacando aspectos de la identidad regional. Para ilustrar se toman problemas político administrativos, producción intelectual y condicionantes socioculturales comunes a la América Latina. Se presenta una síntesis de autores de poesía y novela.
Betty Friedan
Warning the women's movement against dissolving into factionalism, male-bashing, and preoccupation with sexual and identity politics rather than bottom-line political and economic inequalities, Friedan argues that once past the initial phases of describing and working against political and economic injustices, the women's movement should focus on working with men to remake private and public arrangements that work against full lives with children for women and men both. Friedan's agenda to preserve families is far more radical than it appears, for she argues that a truly equitable preservation of marriage and family may require a reorganization of many aspects of conventional middle-class life, from the greater use of flex time and job-sharing, to company-sponsored daycare, to new home designs to permit communal housekeeping and cooking arrangements.
Kenneth M. Straus
Straus argues that the keys for interpreting Stalinism lie in occupational specialization, on the one hand, and community organization, on the other. He focuses on the daily life (byt) of the new Soviet workers in the factory and community, arguing that the most significant new trends saw peasants becoming open hearth steel workers, housewives becoming auto assembly line workers and machine operatives, and youth training en masse rather than in individualized apprenticeships for all types of occupations categories in the vocational schools in the factories, the FZU. Tapping archival material only recently available and a wealth of published sources, Straus presents Soviet social history within a new analytical framework, suggesting that Stalinist forced industrialization and Soviet proletarianization is best understood within a comparative European framework, in which the theories of Marx, Durkheim, and Weber best elucidate both the broad similarities with Western trends and the striking exceptional aspects of the Soviet experience.